YLE will announce the names of 12 artists/groups participating in the Finnish selection on November 8. It will be interesting to see if traditional schlager artists and various tango queens and kings have been thrown out and replaced with rockier sounds, rappers and techno beats in the hope of repeating Lordi's success. Whether Lordi has opened the doors to a new musical scene in Euroviisut remains to be seen, but their outstanding commercial success surely will attract well known names, both has-beens and up and coming ones to claim their free marketing slot. We must remember it is not only Lordi who got a hit this year. They may have taken it all, but Euroviisut gave birth to 5-6 other radio hits - and now that's remarkable considering Euroviisut in the past when most of the songs were forgotten the next day, many of them even never recorded or released afterwards.
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